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World on Wednesday

International Student and Scholar Services would like you to join us at WOW, where Vanderbilt and the community engage in presentations, informal conversations, and topical lectures on global issues. Lunch is always provided. WOW is every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Student Life Center’s Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2. This week’s topic…

Posted by on February 19, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Wagner & Me

Presented by Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German and Film Studies UK, Switzerland, Russia, Germany (2010) Dir. Patrick McGrady. British performer Stephen Fry is a lifelong admirer of the music of Richard Wagner. He is also Jewish. Fry examines his fascination with Wagner, and confronts Wagner’s troubled legacy, whose music may be thought…

Posted by on February 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Brother Outsider

Presented by Frank Dobson, Director, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center; and Petey Peterson, Program Coordinator, Office of LGBTQI Life USA (2002) Dir. Nancy D. Kates. Brother Outsider relies on archival film footage and interviews to offer an incisive portrait of political activist Bayard Rustin. Although his name lacks the familiarity of other major Civil…

Posted by on February 13, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday

International Student and Scholar Services would like you to join us at WOW, where Vanderbilt and the community engage in presentations, informal conversations, and topical lectures on global issues. Lunch is always provided. WOW is every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Student Life Center’s Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2. This week’s topic…

Posted by on February 12, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Voices of Nashville

Commissioned by the Tennessee Women’s Theater Project and written by Christine Mather and Sara Sharpe,Voices of Nashville explores the experience of immigrants in our region through the eyes of these new Americans. TWTP Founder and Artistic Director Maryanna Clarke describes the inspiration this way: “Most people are aware of the explosive growth in the immigrant…

Posted by on February 11, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: El Barrio Tours

Presented by William Luis, Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish, Director of Latino and Latina Studies Program; and Lorraine Lopez, Associate Professor of English USA (2013) Dir. Andrew Padilla. An in depth look at the phenomena of gentrification as seen through the change in the largest Puerto Rican neighborhood in the 50 states: East Harlem……

Posted by on February 6, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Pork Chop Hill

Presented by Frank E. Dobson Jr., Director, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center USA (1959) Dir. Lewis Milestone. A Korean War war film based upon the book by military historian Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall, an eyewitness, depicting the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army’s 7th Infantry Division,…

Posted by on February 6, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday

International Student and Scholar Services would like you to join us at WOW, where Vanderbilt and the community engage in presentations, informal conversations, and topical lectures on global issues. Lunch is always provided. WOW is every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Student Life Center’s Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2. This week’s topic…

Posted by on February 5, 2014 in Activities Everyone

International Lens Film: Sergeant Rutledge

Presented by Frank E. Dobson, Jr., Director, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center
USA (1960) Dir. John Ford. The first big budget Western to feature a black hero, this military courtroom drama from director John Ford stars his long-time stock pl…

Posted by on January 30, 2014 in Activities Everyone

World on Wednesday

International Student and Scholar Services would like you to join us at WOW, where Vanderbilt and the community engage in presentations, informal conversations, and topical lectures on global issues. Lunch is always provided. WOW is every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Student Life Center’s Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2. This week’s topic…

Posted by on January 29, 2014 in Activities Everyone

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